What we offer at KS3/4/5

Year 7: Students have the opportunity to study the following units of work. Geographical skills and the UK. The students will gain a number of the basic geographical skills needed throughout their geographical career. The students will also learn more about their home island before tackling some more complex topics. Weather and climate, river landscapes and energy resources are also studied.

Year 8: Students will continue to build on their knowledge of geography through a wide range of themes. Development - our unequal world, Hazards, Population, A Focus on Africa. A new theme - Our world, our responsibility looks at the importance of our actions and being global citizens.

Year 9: During this year it is important that the students have some exposure to themes that continue into the GCSE course. The students will study - The living world, Globalisation, World cities, Russia, Challenges and opportunities in the UK and Coastal Landscapes.

Qualifications at KS4 and KS5

KS4: AQA GCSE Geography. The students sit three exams:

1) Living with the physical environment

2) Challenges of the human environment

3) Geographical applications and skills.

KS5: IB Geography.

The Diploma Programme geography course integrates physical, environmental and human geography, and ensures that you acquire elements of both socio-economic and scientific methodologies.

Extra curricular activities in the Geography Department

To help to make geography come alive students are invited to attend a number of field visits, both in the local and wider area. KS4 students looking at tourism and coastal processes in Whitstable. KS5 students visit the Olympic park regeneration scheme - Stratford.

The best geography resource is the news. Everyday there are geography related stories. KS3 students are invited to join a 'Geography in the news' club.

There are a number of interesting geography related books and associations that cater for young geographers.

Geographical Association www.geography.org.uk

Royal Geographical Society ww.rgs.org

Walking the Amazon - Ed Stafford (DVD & book)

Tropic of Capricorn - Simon Reeve (DVD & book)

Tropic of Cancer - Simon Reeve (DVD & book)

Planet Earth - Sir Davis Attenborough (DVD)